<dar...@chaosreigns.com> wrote in message
news:20110712164439.gc20...@chaosreigns.com...
On 07/12, Jezz wrote:
So my question is this: is there any way I can get the
DecodeShortURLs plugin working without the Syslog module
requirement? Eg. can I get this plugin to only view Syslog as an
optional and not mandatory prerequisite? I certainly don't need the
Syslog functionality of this plugin, and the plugin itself allows me
to "turn off" Syslog logging by adding "url_shortener_syslog 0" to
the .cf file. Yet it seems to still require the Syslog module in
order to work (otherwise I get errors when I run a lint check).
It's likely to be as easy as commenting out a "use Sys::Syslog" line in
the
plugin.
You may be more likely to get help from its creator (Steve Freegard,
as listed on http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins) than
this list, because it's not a part of spamassassin (although it was
certainly appropriate for you to ask here).
You may want to suggest to him that he only execute the "use Sys::Syslog"
if you have not turned off the syslog functionality. Even if you get it
to
work by just commenting out a line, it might be nice to get that working
for others in the future.
Unfortunately I already tried that without much luck. Specifically, I
outright deleted line 99 of the DecodeShortURLs.pm file which says:
use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock);
Then I ran another lint and I didn't get any errors at all - rather, I got
the following in the results, indicating all was okay:
--------
Jul 13 12:49:02.518 [1436] dbg: plugin: loading
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs from
C:\MDaemon\SpamAssassin\etc\DecodeShortURLs.pm
--------
But then I tested it by scanning a spam message I had saved. The spam
contained a URL which used a shortening service that was listed in the
DecodeShortURLs.cf file. But none of the DecodeShortURLs rules were hit,
such as HAS_SHORT_URL which I would have expected to see. No other errors
came up either. So I'm baffled why it's not working.
Incidentally, I did write to Steve Freegard last week, asking for his help
with this, but so far I haven't had a reply (of course it could be he's
away/busy/whatever, I'm certainly not meaning to be impatient) - so I
thought I'd ask here in case someone else might have an idea. :)
